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Ex-Cajun Farquhar
called up to Seattle

UL baseball alum Danny Farquhar was called up from the triple-A ranks by the Seattle Mariners on Friday.

The move marks Farquhar's second call-up to the major league level. The former Cajuns standout pitched three games for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011.

The Pembroke Pines, Fla., native joined the Seattle organization last July in the Ichiro Suzuki trade with the Yankees.

Farquhar, who joins his Mariners teammates for a series in Cleveland, brings an impressive streak with him to his second stint in MLB. He allowed just one earned run in his last 16 innings with the Tacoma Raniers.

In 15 appearances in Tacoma this season, Farquhar allowed 17 hits with four walks and 30 strikeouts in 20 innings. Over his last 16 innings, he held opponents to a .172 average with two walks and 24 strikeouts.

Farquhar was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 10th round (309th overall) of the 2008 amateur entry Draft.

He led the Blue Jays system with 22 saves in 2009.

He joins Milwaukee Brewers starting catcher Jonathan Lucroy as Ragin' Cajuns presently at the major league level.

Six UL tracksters
headed to NCAA

Six Ragin' Cajuns track and field athletes will take part in the 2013 NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships East Preliminary on May 23-25 in Greensboro, N.C., head coach Lon Badeaux announced.

UL will send four women and two men to the prelims with five of the six athletes competing in field events.

"These kids for the most part have done pretty well all year long," Badeaux said. "We didn't qualify as many people as we have in the past, but what is unique is that most of our athletes that qualified are in the Top 24 performance wise.

"That means that they have a greater chance of making it to nationals. They will be in the better flights and so that will give them a better shot of advancing to the national meet."

Kacey Elphage is the lone Ragin' Cajuns sprinter to compete at the East Preliminary qualifying for the 100-meter hurdles. She ranks 14th among the field at the prelims with a time of 13.31.

In the field events, both Tarvia Conway and Tia Mitchell posted qualifying marks at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships to earn a spot in the prelims. Conway has the 21st best jump in the triple jump with a mark of 12.76m/41-10½, while Mitchell has the 24th ranked mark in the long jump with her jump of 6.15m/20-2¼ at the conference meet.

Lindsey Harmond will compete in the high jump. Her best mark was 1.79m/5-10½ and ranks 28th among the field at the prelims.

On the men's side, both Myles Melancon and Justin Victor reached the prelims in the throwing events. Melancon ranks 26th in the shot put with a best mark of 17.73m/58-2. Victor ranks 26th in hammer throw with a top distance of 60.73m/199-3.

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Sports Briefs

UL baseball alum Danny Farquhar was called up from the triple-A ranks by the Seattle Mariners on Friday.